Notices by Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca), page 2

Just a reminder that blaming any consumer price increases on "carbon tax" means that you are acknowledging price gouging by corporations who pass all business expenses onto their customers while continuing to pad their own profits. That's not called government greed, it's called corporate greed.

#TaxTheRich #abpoli #cdnpoli

Carbon tax takes a cut from ultra-wealthy corporations and passes down to mass consumers, with some kickbacks to green initiatives along the way. There's no other way to cut that.

To say that corporations "need" to pass the costs to us is to completely ignore multi-billion dollar record profits, and assume that each CEO is "entitled" to 2,000x the wages of each employee, because it's only right. You're just being a corporate shill, there's no other way to cut that.

#abpoli #cdnpoli #TaxTheRich

Humanity check.

#freepalestine #gaza

@augieray
When I caught #COVID I had to return to work after 10 days but even then I could barely crawl out of the house. I was still crippled by the illness, but I was no longer infectious so I had to work (or rather, couldn't afford not to). During the 10 days I couldn't even move.

Now they want us going to work during the time you're bedridden AND infectious? I can't even.

(Granted, I'm in Canada so we have our own health authority, but sadly what happens with the CDC tends to follow soon)

"Instead of investigating how it published a fake story on supposed Hamas "mass rapes", the NY Times is investigating... employees who leaked info about how its editors hired a racist Israeli propagandist to write the fake story to justify Israel's genocide."

#gaza #freepalestine

Cartoon by Ding (Jay Norwood Darling), May 14, 1921, published on the front page of the Des Moines Register, above the fold.

This is how long the war on active transportation has been going on, financed by Automotive lobbyists.

The reception to the character of Franklin in 1968, and the origin of why the character was created (a letter from a White Los Angeles school teacher following the assassination of MLK Jr.), plus the first comic strip Franklin appeared in, in 1968.

#BlackHistory

As for the baking job, I'm glad to let that one pass, as it has completely hindered my ability to do other work. My hands are so messed up right now, that I can't properly type, and I don't know how I'm going to operate a camera when I get the chance. Just riding my bike to work, I need to reach my other hand over to shift gears. My skin is nearly healed now and I should be able to wear my wedding band again soon, but my left thumb and right index fingers suffered some sort of trauma. /3

Which is another thing about the bakery, is that they said I could go full-time after a few months but they don't pay enough to pay the bills, so that wouldn't have happened. My other job, they keep promising to restore my hours to full-time, but they say they'll do it "gradually" when they please, maybe this month, maybe next month, who knows. Again, asking me to keep my schedule open for full-time availability, on half the wages. How tf am I supposed to be on-call for work when I'm homeless?/2

Here's my life update. I've stopped working at the bakery, the scheduling totally messed me up. I never did actually figure out when the schedule comes out, where they keep it, or even when I get paid. The lack of communication is grim. I don't think I've done shift work before, but my takeaway from it is that they want you to give them full-time availability on part-time wages. My other job already did that to me, and I can't work two jobs that want me on call and don't want to pay my wages. /1

So yes, I am in DESPERATE need of work. Not crap work, but real, professional-level work that can pay the bills. Please send any leads my way, including gigs (photography or design). /5

On shift I caught my thumbnail on a sharp edge which drove right into my skin, and I barely paid attention because my skin was burning in agony, but afterwards the pain started to set in and I had hoped it would be temporary but it doesn't seem to be healing. Almost anything I touch puts me in agonizing pain. Last few days I had to deal with that pain on top of searing pain to the side of my head from an ear infection. Right now that part is more of a discomfort, and I am back to work again./4

We need some yeongno.

Israel read the ruling by the ICJ in the opposite way as the rest of the world, and nothing will change.

Netanyahu: "Court was right to uphold Israel's right to self-defense, but should never have debated genocide charge"

Israeli foreign ministry: 'Israel remains committed to abide by international law, and that has "nothing to do with the court proceedings."'

According to the ministry, "Israel's war is against Hamas, not against Palestinian civilians."

Source: Haaretz

#gaza #freepalestine

Nevermind me, just getting some water...

@kaia And what is wrong with that? :/

@vriska Congratulations to whomever it is!!

@NMBA @pekkatahkola Yup, or right against the crosswalk in the no-parking spot, so that the big line of kids squeezing through the tiny gap between SUVs to cross at the crosswalk can't see traffic, or vice versa.

@pekkatahkola What kind of dystopian nightmare is this where a grade-school child needs a car or truck to safely access the main entrance of their school? #yeg #yegbike

@pekkatahkola The elementary school where my daughters go to Grade 1, does not even have a SIDEWALK along the side of the school where the FRONT DOOR is located!

When we were riding our push scooters around the neighborhood, they wanted to turn down the street where their school was. They asked, "Why not? Our school is right there, it's safe." and I had to explain to them that there is no sidewalk in front of their school and there is only a road for cars to drive down (they use the side door).